| 单词 | happiness |
| 释义 | happiness (once / 79 pages) n Happiness is that feeling that comes over you when you know life is good and you can't help but smile. It's the opposite of sadness. Happiness is a sense of well-being, joy, or contentment. When people are successful, or safe, or lucky, they feel happiness. The "pursuit of happiness" is something this country is based on, and different people feel happiness for different reasons. Whenever doing something causes happiness, people usually want to do more of it. No one ever complained about feeling too much happiness. WORD FAMILYhappiness: happinesses+/happy: happier, happiest, happily, happiness, happyly, unhappy/unhappiness: unhappinesses/unhappy: unhappier, unhappiest, unhappily, unhappiness USAGE EXAMPLESThe patterns you establish right now will impact your health, productivity, financial security and happiness for decades. New York Times(Oct 18, 2016) “The majority of individuals everywhere . . . seem to associate happiness more with extravagance than with frugality.” Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) Nothing fills me with more happiness than when Seb enters the playground and is welcomed into a game of football. The Guardian(Dec 31, 2016) 1n state of well-being characterized by emotions ranging from contentment to intense joy Syn|Ant|Hypo|Hyper felicity unhappiness state characterized by emotions ranging from mild discontentment to deep grief beatification, beatitude, blessedness a state of supreme happiness radiancean attractive combination of good health and happiness enlightenment, nirvana(Hinduism and Buddhism) the beatitude that transcends the cycle of reincarnation; characterized by the extinction of desire and suffering and individual consciousness emotional state, spirit the state of a person's emotions (especially with regard to pleasure or dejection) 2n emotions experienced when in a state of well-being Ant|Hypo|Hyper sadness, unhappiness emotions experienced when not in a state of well-being bonheur (French) happiness and good humor gladfulness, gladness, gladsomenessexperiencing joy and pleasure gaiety, merrimenta gay feeling rejoicinga feeling of great happiness belonginghappiness felt in a secure relationship blitheness, cheerfulnessa feeling of spontaneous good spirits contentmenthappiness with one's situation in life glee, gleefulness, hilarity, mirth, mirthfulnessgreat merriment jocularity, jocunditya feeling facetious merriment comfortablenessa feeling of being at ease in a relationship closeness, intimacya feeling of being intimate and belonging together buoyancy, perkinesscheerfulness that bubbles to the surface carefreeness, insouciance, lightheartedness, lightsomenessthe cheerful feeling you have when nothing is troubling you satisfactionthe contentment one feels when one has fulfilled a desire, need, or expectation jolliness, jollity, jovialityfeeling jolly and jovial and full of good humor feeling the experiencing of affective and emotional states |
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